Pope Leo XIV renewed his “appeal for peace” in an interview after a surprise visit to the Vatican Radio Center.

As it happened, the pope has several generations of Cuban ancestors.

Renewing an appeal for peace, Leo underlined the importance of trying "at all costs to avoid the use of weapons and seek ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

The next phase in the life of Laudato Si', the decade-old encyclical on ecology, will not be defined by its author, Pope ...

Thousands went to the first American pope’s old haunt on the South Side to hear a message from the man they once knew as ...

The Holy Father also shared light refreshments with staff present Thursday morning to celebrate with them the 43rd ...

The 1,060-acre site northwest of Rome is home to Vatican Radio's shortwave transmitters and transmission center ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.